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James Apollo is a singer-songwriter, guitarist, and Brooklyn-to-Seattle transplant, and for his second record, he's teamed with Damien Jurado, a musician who's responsible for one of the year's most talked-about local releases, Maraqopa. Jurado handles production duties on Little More, Little Less, and the result is an album that sounds like a lot of bands you've probably listened to. There's elements of Andrew Bird-esque baroque pop, Western folk in the vein of a band like Calexico, and a fair amount of cabaret strangeness that recalls Tom Waits. Similar to Maraqopa, it's a subdued, dusky listen, one that's technically sound even if it doesn't go anywhere new or unexpected.